Kyoto day three, Ginkaku-ji and the Philosopher’s Walk

Tuesday 11/8:
The second post of the day was Ginkaku-ji, or the Silver Pavilion. Since seeing the golden one last time I visited Kyoto, it was time to do the silver one. I knew it wasn’t gone be as grand as the golden one, not actually being silver colored, but it was close to the Philosophers [...]

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Kyoto day three, Fushimi Inari

Tuesday 11/8:
Our third day in Kyoto was gone be a busy one. I had still lots of places to see on my to do list, and not much time left.
The first post of the day was Fushimi Inari, a mountain of thousand red tori gates, and on of my biggest recommendations if you are going [...]

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Kyoto day two, eastern Gion and Kiyomizu temple

Monday 10/8:
The next day we were woken up to nothing less than an earthquake and a typhoon at the same time! The earthquake was the biggest one so fare, 6.9 in Tokyo city. Unfortunately (I know I should say fortunately, but I can’t help thinking earthquakes are exiting, as long as no one gets hurt. [...]

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Kyoto day one

Sunday 9/8:
It was Sunday, and time to head of to Kyoto. We were taking the shinkansen (fast train), and it was the first time for me. For some reason I had got it into my head that the shinkansen was leaving from Shinjuku, and not Tokyo station, but luckily we had put in enough slack [...]

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Tokyo sightseeing

Saturday 8/8:
Ok, time to finish this blog. Can’t stop now when I am so close to the finish line. Here we go, short and sweet.
It was Tokyo sightseeing day, and I was the guide. Having lived here for a year, I felt pretty competent and up for the task. Doing all of Tokyo was of [...]

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Dad and Ina arrives Japan

Friday 7/8:
After the graduation ceremony I stopped by my lab for a final goodbye there and then if was of to a small goodbye party (with food) for all the students, host families and teachers.
And then when that was about done I got a call from my dad, saying he and Ina (his wife) had [...]

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Graduation and my sotsuron project

Friday 7/8:
By the end of the week it was graduation time from Tokyo Tech. It was a daylong seminar ending with a nice ceremony. Everyone presented their SOTSURON project that we had worked on true the whole year and it was actually quite interesting, at least when I understood half of it, which happened mostly [...]

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